Charles Sale for the Daily Mail's recent articles

CHARLES SALE: After Edgbaston produced easily the best atmosphere of the Ashes Test series, Great Britain’s Davis Cup semi-final against Australia could be heading to Birmingham as well. One of the problems is finding a stadium big enough at short notice for the showcase tie starting on September 18. Andy Murray’s choice would be on home ground at Glasgow’s Hydro Arena, but that is booked for the live show of Mrs Brown’s Boys two days before the tennis. Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre has staged the Davis Cup before and has the necessary capacity while the second city’s sports fans showed this week at the Test how passionate they are about cheering on their country.
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CHARLES SALE: England's cricket counties have voiced their strong opposition to plans for a city-based T20 tournament featuring eight teams that the ECB would like to start in 2017. The proposals would see the new competition, bankrolled by Sky’s extra TV rights funding, staged at the height of summer and attracting the world’s best players.
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CHARLES SALE: Sir Dave Brailsford, the mastermind behind three Tour de France triumphs in four years, has finally agreed to publish his life story. The book, What It Takes , is about Brailsford’s extraordinary cycling success with Sky and also Team GB, who enjoyed multi-medal hauls at the Beijing and London Olympics. It was due to be released by Penguin last year but Brailsford had been nervous in 2013 — after his Team Sky rider Chris Froome had won his first Tour de France — about going public too early in his career. He cited ‘personal reasons’ for the delay but also had reservations about working with a ghost-writer with little cycling knowledge.
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